Accidental Gods

 What are the best, most readable, most inspiring and most give-able books this season?  Manda's solstice list of her favourite Fiction and non-Fiction books read in 2021. Plus a bonus handful of must-listen podcasts. 

Here we go, people of the podcast - the books and their links. I've linked through Blackwells, because I used to love Heffers (part of the same chain) when I was in Cambridge.  Do obviously feel free to support your local bookshop. 


KSR: The Ministry for the Future
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Ministry-for-the-Future-by-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/9780356508863/


Cory Doctorow - Walkaway
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Walkaway-by-Cory-Doctorow/978178669307/


Victoria Goddard The Hands of the Emperor 
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Hands-of-the-Emperor-by-Goddard-Victoria/9781988908144

Mick Herron SLOUGH HOUSE - 7th Jackson Lamb thriller
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Slough-House-by-Mick-Herron/9781529378665/

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Iron-Widow-by-Xiran-Jay-Zhao/9780861542093

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fates-and-Furies-by-Lauren-Groff/9780099592532

NON-FICTION 

Davids Graeber and Wengrow - THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING : a new history of Humanity 
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Dawn-of-Everything-by-David-Graeber-D-Wengrow/9780241402429/



TAMSIN OMOND: Do/Earth: Healing strategies for humankind
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Do-Earth-by-Tamsin-Omond/9781914168000/


All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K Wilkinson 
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/All-We-Can-Save-by-Ayana-Elizabeth-Johnson-editor-Katharine-K-Wilkinson-editor/9780593237083

Finding the Mother Tree https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Finding-the-Mother-Tree-by-S-Simard/9780241389348/


Tomorrow is too late - Grace Maddrell https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Tomorrow-Is-Too-Late-by-Grace-Maddrell/9781911648321/

The Future Earth - Eric Holthaus
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Future-Earth-by-Eric-Holthaus/9780062883162/

Recapture the Rapture - Jamie Wheal
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Recapture-the-Rapture-by-Jamie-Wheal/9780062905468/


Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Mission-Economy-by-Mariana-Mazzucato/9780241419731

PODCASTS

The Hive: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-hive-podcast/id1387510537/
Upstream: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/upstream/id1082594532/
Emerge: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emerge-making-sense-of-whats-next/id1057220344/
Frontiers of Commoning: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/frontiers-of-commoning-with-david-bollier/id1501085005/
Outrage and Optimism: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/outrage-optimism/id1459416461/
What Could Possibly Go Right: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-could-possibly-go-right/id1520465627/
Your Undivided Attention: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/your-undivided-attention/id1460030305/
EcoCiv : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-ecociv-podcast/id1511996189/
Farmerama: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/farmerama/id1031542491/
Farm Gate: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/farm-gate/id1490590788/
The Lodge Cast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-lodge-cast/id1530950902/
Reasons to be Cheerful: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reasons-to-be-cheerful-with-ed-miliband-and-geoff-lloyd/id1287081706/
Tom and Thelma Look Left: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/thelma-and-tom-look-left/id1553737688/

What is Accidental Gods ?

Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone - it is never coming back.

We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine,
and by doing so, create a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn.

What happens if we commit to a world based on the values we care about: compassion, courage, integrity?

What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves (so we have to do the inner work of healing individually and collectively), between ourselves and each other (so we have to do the outer work of relearning how to build generative communities) and between ourselves and the Web of Life (so we have to reclaim our birthright as conscious nodes in the web of life)?

We can do this - and every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being. We have all the answers, we just lack the visions to weave them into a future that works. We can make this happen. We will. Join us.

Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come.

If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - future, we need to get to know the people who are already living, working, thinking and believing at the leading edge of inter-becoming transformation.
Accidental Gods exists to bring these voices to the world so that we can work together to lay the foundations of a world we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system.
Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.

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